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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 117 +6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日十 (YTAJ), four-corner 00406, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 871, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25761
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1301, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2709, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7AE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋs
*kjaŋs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyang ›
Old
Chinese
/*taŋ/
English brilliant; distinctive mark; to display

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16817
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kjaŋ/

Definitions

  1. chapter; section
    /    zhāngjié   chapter, section
  2. composition; structure
       wénzhāng   article, essay
  3. rules; regulations; constitution
       zhāngchéng   rules, regulations
  4. seal; stamp
    /    zhāng   stamp, seal
  5. badge; medal; emblem
       huīzhāng   badge, emblem
  6. order
  7. memorial to the throne
       zòuzhāng   memorial to the throne
  8. to make known
  9. Classifier for chapters, etc.
  10. A surname. Zhang; Cheung

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana しょう, romaji shō)

  1. chapter; section

Proper noun

(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(jang) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chương)

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